I’d like to get in the habit of doing the blog-all-dog-eared-pages thing, but I really really hate dog-earing pages. I’m not absurdly fussy about the state of my books – they are working objects after all – but I don’t like folding the corners of the pages. So I thought I’d note this one down [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Literature'
30 Days – Day #14: A non-Fictional Book
December 14th, 2009 No Comments
Oh, all right, I’ll play along this time. We can’t all be expected to speak English good, and god knows I’ve made far more egregious typos in my time. I havered about what to write about here, though. I probably own more non-fiction than fiction, as long as we discount the comics, and are a [...]
Tags: books · london · non-fiction
30 Days – Day #13: A Fictional Book
December 13th, 2009 No Comments
Note carefully: not a fiction book. A fictional book. So I’m going to talk about the Sigsand Manuscript. The Sigsand Manuscript features in the stories of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder by William Hope Hodgson, one of a few works published roughly contemporarily with Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes that I like almost as much. The Sigsand MS, [...]
30 Days – Day #4: My Favourite Book
December 4th, 2009 No Comments
I’m going to be really quite glad when this “favourite” slew of topics is done, because I am a fully rounded human being, and have trouble with this sort of pick-one nonsense. On the bright side, though, I am not a well-read man. Oh, I’ve read a lot of books, but I’m not well read. [...]
Tags: 17 · books · calvin and hobbes · objects · the fat duck · winnie the pooh
Brain Freeze
April 15th, 2009 No Comments
I keep feeling like I want to write a long blog post about something. And Then I come to sit and write, and I have no idea what I want to write about. This is very peculiar. Theoretically, I owe Hester and Andrea a topic each, but I’m not happy with either of the pieces [...]
A Commercial Interlude
January 16th, 2009 No Comments
For some years now, my friend Lee “Budgie” Barnett has been running an ongoing writing challenge on his blog, and producing some truly excellent pieces of short fiction as a result. He has finally collected the results into a book format, available for £6.50, which I believe works out at around ten of your yanqui [...]
Invisible Cities
December 3rd, 2006 No Comments
I have spent the last several days reading, and falling head over heels in love with “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino. There is absolutely nothing I don’t love about this book. The concept, the execution (I adore the form of the short monologue), the language and rhythm are absolutely sublime things, but past all that, [...]
